Overall, my Samsung SGH-t639 cell phone has been satisfying. But I noticed early on while text messaging in T9 mode that when I typed “63″, which should evaluate to either “of” or “me”, was instead popping up “Md” first. What the blazes?
I realized I’d added the word by mistake, either by typing it or by explicitly adding to the T9 dictionary. This makes sense because “M” is the first letter on button 6 and “D” is the first letter on button 3, and adding to the dictionary is only a couple button presses.
Of course, now I want to delete the word. But I can’t. The manual explains how to add a word, and not how to delete it. I called Samsung tech support who said there is no feature for deleting a word from the T9 dictionary—on any Samsung phone. They didn’t have to check which phone I was using.
Google, it seems, often provides the best tech support. It turns out the T9 system adapts its predictions to the words you use. If your problem is that a word is popping up in place of the one you want, simply create a text message wherein you repeatedly select the word(s) you desire, and it will begin to push back the unwanted words in that message and future messages. You do not need to save the message for this to be true; it adjusts on fly as it is used, as opposed to basing its predictions on stored data.
While it is ridiculous that words can’t be deleted, at least this needs not be a lasting nuisance in most cases. However, tragically, it seems that most people dealing with this problem today are unable to find the above solution.